Magical realism has traveled far beyond Latin America, influencing Caribbean, Chicano, and global literatures. Yet its roots in… Read more.

The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Melissa has reached 49, according to official reports, following widespread destruction across much of the northern Caribbean. Haitian authorities have reported ...

Every Halloween we see people dressed as zombies, imitating the catatonic and clumsy evildoers in nearly 600 bad movies. In Haitian folklore, a zombie is a dead body reanimated through Vodou magic, ...